Re: Fave conlangs and essentialist explanations

Here's another:

My as-yet-unnamed conlang is essentially a
Quechua-Finnish pidgin spoken by Indonesians.

--- Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> wrote:
> I could add another, very simple one:
>
> Madzhi is essentially bastardised Hungarian spoken
> by various North
> American Natives.
>
> ----ferko
> Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
>
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Bob Greenwade wrote:
> > >    One that I posted was missed, from the last
> time Essentialism came up:
> > >    Rav Zarruvo is essentially Native American
> war chants being attempted
> > >by a group of dyslexic Chinese with severe
> indigestion problems, who think
> > >they're learning Hindi.
> >
> > More essentialism:
> >
> > Kalini Sapak is essentially Arab spoken by a Swede
> who doesn't know Arab.
> >
> >
>    Andreas
> >
> > PS _Kalini Sapuk ginda Irba Sapak, lik Sawud, wa
> nayn-lusawu Irba Sapak,
> > supaku sa._ "The Langauge of the Clans is
> basically the Arab Language, as a
> > Swede, who doesn't know the Arab Language, speaks
> it." Irba is a perfectly
> > normal adjective fromation if "Arab" as a noun is
> adapted as a (slighly odd)
> > accusative _Arab_, accusative being the lexical
> case in Kalini Sapak.
> > _Sawad_, nominative _Sawud_ is simple the
> consonants of "Swede" treated as a
> > Kalini Sapak triconsonantal root - I chose not to
> use the Swedish from
> > _svensk_ because it's got a couple consonants too
> many! Pronunciation is
> > largely as you'd expect, but note _Sawud_ ['sQwUd]
> and _nayn-lusawu_
> > [ne:n'lusQwU].
> >
> >
>
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